Pulling My Hair Because Of FTP

[TamedTech]

Hello Guys,

I'm really struggling with getting my IIS6 FTP site to play correctly, every time I get it working it seems to brake shortly thereafter and its driving me nuts. So I know that FTP is a plain text protocol so will not likely be _THAT_ safe buy I'd like to do my best and at least secure it with a username and password.

So I've created the FTP site in IIS and removed the check box so that it no longer allows anonymous connections to the site. I then created a local user account for the ftp, giving it a nice long password. I then removed this user from the 'users' group and added them to its own 'ftpusers' users group.

Then for the home directory of my FTP site I added 'ftpusers' to the list in the security tab and gave them, directory list, write and read permissions for the folder.

This as far as I know should be all I need to do, however when attempting to upload files to the empty directory I get the following error message in my FTP client:

'Could not connrect, Error message is FTP protocol error 550 /: Cannot create a file when that file already exists'

Now two things strike me as a little odd about this:

A) The files DONT already exist, its an empty folder.
B) Even if they did, I should be able to overwrite them.

So I did a little hunting around before I came here and found a tech document from Microsoft about this, apparantly having somthing to do with the MetaBase, which I've now modified to thier specification, but the problem still persists.

Here is that article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309634

Can any offer some advice on this one? its starting to send me insane :-D

Thanks guys,

Rob

 

[TamedTech]

Hello Guys,

Just as a quick follow up, I've just baught and installed a different FTP server, created a completely new folder for the site and still get the exact same issue, I'm starting to think this is a more general Windows type thing rather than anything specificaly FTP related.

One thing I do notice is that when I right click the folder and look at the properties tag, the 'read only' is checked, but its partialy faded out, not sure if thats normal. I've tried unchecking it but it seems to self re-check itself :-D

Thanks,

Rob

 

[HalComps]

Hi Rob

heres a couple of sites to get u started hope they help

http://www.colasoft.com/resources/protocol.php?id=FTP

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc765.html